AN IRISH company’s mobile phone application that can identify a painting from a snapshot has won an award and $100,000 (€66,000) from Google.
Plink, an Irish start-up company set up by two Oxford University computer science doctoral students, took a top prize in the education and reference section of Google’s second global Android Developers Challenge (ADC2). Android is Google’s mobile phone operating system.
Plink’s “PlinkArt” application, which can be downloaded for free from Google’s Android applications website, allows a person to identify a work of art just by taking a picture of it with a cameraphone.
The image is sent to a database of images and PlinkArt’s software will then recognise and identify the image and return relevant information, such as Wikipedia articles. Read More
Courtesy: Irish Times
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